Category Archive: Opinion

Wow. Photokina kicked off this week, and as one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) photography trade shows, it also sees a ton of announcements. I wanted to get to these earlier, but it’s been crazy busy around here. For Micro 4/3 users, Monday saw the announced release of no less than three new …

Yesterday, Samsung announced their new Galaxy Camera…a full fledged point and shoot with essentially a full fledged smartphone built in (minus the voice calling). It’s an intriguing idea, and I feel it likely shows functionality that will become more commonplace with cameras going forward. It’s got a 21x optical zoom lens and a 16.3 MP …

Pansonic today announced a bunch of new cameras…a small sensor superzoom with f/2.8 aperture (which is pretty cool, frankly), a new ‘premium’ compact in the LX7, and their latest Micro 4/3 camera, the Lumix DMC-G5. Panasonic Lumix G5 The G5 is the successor to the G3, and uses a similar, but not quite the same, …

Schneider-Kreuznach is a well respected lens maker, who primarily has specialized in ultra-high end cinema lenses and large format photographic lenses for their subsidiary company B+W, which is probably the most well respected photographic filter maker in the business. They also make many of the lenses for the Samsung NX series mirrorless cameras, though …

In the Micro 4/3 world this past week has seen the official announcement of two lenses that had been previewed some time back by both Olympus and Panasonic. This week saw the official announcements and pricing information. On Monday, Panasonic released their 12-35mm f/2.8 standard zoom, while Olympus announced the 75mm f/1.8 on Thursday. You …

Today I got a chance for a brief time to handle Olympus’ new flagship Micro 4/3 camera, the E-M5, which is positioned in the brand new OM-D line, a callback to the OM system of the 1970s and 1980s. The new camera is styled in a very similar vein to those cameras, but is also …

I was perusing the net at many oft visited Photography related websites, and came across this post on 43rumors.com. It basically shows some images of the upcoming Olympus 75mm f/1.8 lens for Micro 4/3. There was certainly nothing wrong with the post, but the comments on the post had me scratching my head. It wasn’t just …

Today at Mobile World Congress, Nokia launched their new 808 PureView. It’s a smartphone. A smartphone with a 41 Megapixel camera. I know what you’re thinking. I thought the same thing: Those have got to be the worst 41 megapixels in existence. That’s outright absurd. And then I looked at the images. This thing is …